beta2

[IriDium]

Small point but "May be" significant.

I'm running two "installs" of Beta 1.2
a) Class 10 4GB micro SD card with adapter.
b) Class 4 2GB micro SD card with adapter but booting off a USB 8G Flash drive.

a) seems to run a lot slower and spends a lot more time in a write state, than b) (Monitored with nmon)

Neither setup needed any updates (Last time it worked ) and they are both configured roughly the same (same skin and add-ons) both on the same RPi and peripherals.

The only Xbian difference I can really see is the swap file is smaller (Guess because of the amount of available storage).

It's not a definitive test as I cannot guarantee they are both identical but I would have thought there shouldn't be much difference. I was hoping a) would have been faster, but it appears that maybe a USB installation is quicker.

Any ideas why? Is the I/O on the SD card slower than the USB ?